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diff --git a/fetchmail-FAQ.html b/fetchmail-FAQ.html index bda28be3..9230a29e 100644 --- a/fetchmail-FAQ.html +++ b/fetchmail-FAQ.html @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ <table width="100%" cellpadding=0><tr> <td width="30%">Back to <a href="index.html">Fetchmail Home Page</a> <td width="30%" align=center>To <a href="/~esr/sitemap.html">Site Map</a> -<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1999/04/29 06:53:23 $ +<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1999/05/03 06:36:20 $ </table> <HR> <H1>Frequently Asked Questions About Fetchmail</H1> @@ -133,6 +133,7 @@ a line hit while downloading?</a><br> <a href="#O5">O5. Why is fetched mail being logged with my name, not the real From address?</a><br> <a href="#O6">O6. I'm seeing long sendmail delays or hangs near the start of each poll cycle.</a><br> <a href="#O7">O7. Why doesn't fetchmail deliver mail in date-sorted order?</a><br> +<a href="#O8">O8. I'm using pppd. Why isn't my monitor option working?</a><br> <h1>Answers:</h1> <hr> @@ -2323,11 +2324,23 @@ differences between the remote-fetch protocols it uses.<P> Re-ordering messages is a user-agent function, anyway.<P> +<hr> +<h2><a name="O8">O8. I'm using pppd. Why isn't my monitor option working?</a></h2> + +There is a combination of circumstances that can confuse fetchmail. +If you have set up demand dialing with pppd, and pppd has an idle +timeout, and you have lcp-echo-interval set, then the +lcp-echo-interval time must be longer than the pppd idle timeout. +Otherwise it is going keep increasing the packet counters that fetchmail +relies upon, triggering fetchmail into polling after its own delay +interval and thus preventing the pppd link from ever reaching its +inactivity timeout.<p> + <HR> <table width="100%" cellpadding=0><tr> <td width="30%">Back to <a href="index.html">Fetchmail Home Page</a> <td width="30%" align=center>To <a href="/~esr/sitemap.html">Site Map</a> -<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1999/04/29 06:53:23 $ +<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1999/05/03 06:36:20 $ </table> <P><ADDRESS>Eric S. Raymond <A HREF="mailto:esr@thyrsus.com"><esr@snark.thyrsus.com></A></ADDRESS> |